Chris First built Fallout: New York in the browser with Claude Opus 5.5: quests, dialogue trees, V.A.T.S. and a Pip-Boy. No texture files, no sound files. Buildings, weapons, faces and audio come from code.
Bilawal Sidhu’s argument: language models will dent controllable procedural 3D, manifesting what you ask for inside tools like Houdini, Blender, or Unreal. The clip is the dent.
Matt Shumer had Claude Opus 5 one-shot a game in which every visual and every sound is custom code. Nothing was imported. He says to turn the sound on.